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Finally, finally, finally! Time for my best friend, the macro lens. My crocuses are not in full bloom yet, but I know that the coltsfoot will have dotted the roadside yellow in that warm spot that is always the first one to melt in Loos. I was hoping to see other signs of spring, anything…
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I know I’ve talked about about zoos before and I think I might have even said that I will never visit one again, but I now solemnly swear that I will never promise I will never visit another zoo. The issue of captive animals, for and against, it’s been discussed already and now I just…
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Easter is a classic time for a skiing (or snowshoeing) trip in the mountains. The sunny fifth season days really are the best up in the mountains so I have a tradition to do a trip every year, normally I pick any sunny Saturday in March or very early April but with Easter giving us…
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We’ve got plenty of the roe deer around here but they’re really shy, so I can just forget about approaching them in full sight, they’ll be long gone before I get to photographing distance. I’ve only really had one reasonably good opportunity to photograph them, that was over two years ago. Since then I’ve of…
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I went for a walk right after breakfast, didn’t want to risk that it would get warmer during the day and the ice casing we have on everything right now would melt away. The trails are wonderful right now – they really are hard as ice, it’s like walking on tarmac. Except 10 times more…
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It’s a rare phenomenon up here but it happens, so today it was -2°C and raining. Needless to say that it didn’t look very inviting for a hike, but I hoped that it would turn to snowing so I went out. Pretty soon my camera pack and tripod were covered with ice but I was…
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Today was probably the warmest day of the spring yet. Warm and sunny, it was incredibly nice to be outdoors. The snow is very slushy at the moment so you foot sinks through even when following snowmobile tracks, but I was ok on snowshoes – for the most part, anyway. But it got me thinking,…
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I hate to keep repeating myself but I seem to be coming no closer to end of my photographic slump. Spring is definitely on the way now, we’ve been having some warm days and the snow has started melting but it’s also been very windy and the snow is covered with wind blown debris. Maybe…
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I talked about the Moose Lake hike a while back. Another favourite hike I have is north-west to the Kvarnsjön lake, then south to Ryggskog and home via Gäddtjärnen. I used to do it a lot when I was still skiing, but not so much now that I’m snowshoeing because it’s a tad long for…
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I had high hopes for great winter scenery, because it’s been snowing for a couple of days solid now. But alas, I had a really tough time finding subjects. A few twigs sticking out of the snow turned out to be the highlight of the day… Oh well, one more to add to my minimalistic…